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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to soccer: simply the best there has ever been. Merckx amassed an astonishing 445 victories. Lance Armstrong, by comparison, managed fewer than 100. Merckx didnt just beat his opponents; he crushed them. But his triumphs only tell half a story that includes horrific injury, a doping controversy, and tragedy. He was nicknamed "the Cannibal" for his insatiable appetite for victory, but...
Author
Description
Adrien Niyonshuti is a member of the Rwandan cycling team. Jock Boyer is the coach of Team Rwanda. Tom Ritchey is the visionary inventor of the mountain bike and the US money man looking to recover from a profound personal crisis. This title tells the story of the Rwandan cycling team as they overcome impossible odds to inspire a nation.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Over the course of two years, Daniel Coyle conducted more than 200 hours of interviews with cyclist Tyler Hamilton and spoke candidly with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The result is an explosive book that takes us deep inside a shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to succeed that they would do anything - and take any risk, physical, mental, or...
4) BMX bully
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eleven-year-old Matt wants to make the Evergreen Racing Team but his chances are seriously threatened when a new boy moves to town and resorts to cheating in order to win.
5) BMX bikes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines BMX bikes, trick riding, racing, and equipment maintenance.
10) Cycle sports
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Women athletes go the distance in this text's exploration of supergirls who cycle. These world-class athletes are in races that span from just a few miles to over 4,000 miles. It's important they stay physically and mentally fit to do so. Readers can explore the stories of women athletes who have shaped these cycling sports. Readers also learn about experiencing the sports for themselves, whether as a hobby or as a new career"-- www.garethstevens.com...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The first Tour de France was a far cry from the polished international sporting event we see on television today. Organized by the financially free falling L'Auto magazine, the desperate editors thought that organizing a grand cycling tour was the only thing that could save their publication. But in 1903, cyclists weren't enthusiastic about what was pitched to them as a heroic race through roads more suited to hooves than wheels, with bikes weighing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Abandoning his former life as a couch potato and gamer, Phil Gaimon begin riding a bicycle in 2004 with the goal of shedding a few pounds. By sheer accident, he discovered he was a natural, advancing so rapidly through the amateur ranks that he entered the pro peloton utterly ignorant of a century of cycling etiquette. He recounts the difficulties of making ends meet on a salary of $166 a month, the politics and friendships of the peloton, and the...
13) American flyers
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Two brothers set off to ride the Hell of the West bicycle race in Colorado.
15) Redemption ride
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After testing positive for performance-enhancing drug use, world-class bicycle racing champion Colter Reese thought he'd ridden his last mile. While trying to hold on to his last remaining treasure, his ill son Jonah, Colter is visited by a mysterious race representative who offers him a chance to ride once more in a unique, long distance endurance race. Desperate for the prize money that would give his son a life-saving operation, Colter sets out...
17) BMX events
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes BMX competitions, and explains how the events have changed over the years.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A re-imagining of a true story, The Invisible Mile is a novel about the capacity of the human mind and body when stretched to their absolute limits, written in prose that calls to mind the works of Marilynne Robinson and John Banville, as well as Colson Whiteheads National Book Award-winning novel The Underground Railroad. In 1928, the Ravat-Wonder cycling team became the first English-speaking peloton to compete in the Tour de France. The riders,...
20) Never say die
Author
Series
Nancy Drew Files volume 16
Pub. Date
[1987]
Description
Nancy steps in to help after her friend George becomes the target of some nasty attacks. She soon discovers a robbery and a treasure guarded by a killer shark.